If there's a sub for mlp convention stuff, I couldn't find it, but I think it may be relevant here. Please let me know if I was wrong and/or if there's a better sub for this.

So, I'll be vending at Fiesta Equestria! in Houston this weekend and it happens to be the same weekend at the Houston Pride parade. I'll be going to at least enjoy the parade Saturday night and I'm looking to see if anyone wants to join me on my adventure with Houston public transit or driving there or whatever (I have my car... but downtown Houston is scary).

Even if you aren't attending the con, but happen to be local and want to go, I'd love to have more company.

It kinda bums me out that they had to avoid the word "couple" and stick with "best friend." But! They use that word a lot, are super affectionate to each other, basically act like a couple ("We'll talk about this later!"), apparently live with each other (since Lyra eats something of Bon-Bon's). That's enough evidence to say queer couple to me, which is awesome. :)

Also, I know it's totally a stretch, but part of me wants to say Vinyl and Octavia could canonically be a couple. They live together and get along well (and jam really well together--their musicmaking seems to be an intense, passionate, physical thing). I know that's much less evidence, but I wanna count it 'cause I want more queer couples. c:

Matthew Palumbo is a Brony, a father, and a person with a visual disability. His degenerative eye condition made him completely blind in one eye and with little usable vision in the other. He has been able to bond with his son by watching MLP:FiM since the bright colors were more easily visible. Last year, wanted to show the world how MLP helped people with all sorts of disabilities as well as marginalized identities in the LGBT spectrum to band together, find common ground, and help each other. So last year, he presented a panel at Bronycon that included him, the creator of Snowdrop, an educator and even his son! He also collected 100 testimonials and stories from Bronies & Pegasisters from allover the world on how MLP had helped them.
The panel was a great success-- the room was almost completely filled to capacity-- so successful that Bronycon invited him back. This also looks like this is going to be the last convention he'll have with any sort of eyesight remaining. So in addition to an even more ambitious panel, now he wants to collect more stories from us-- which will be presented at the panel, available as a free download, a free audiobook for the visually impaired, and a hard copy.